Special Issue on Melodrama and Cinema Editor's Note Melodrama / Subjectivity / Ideology: The Relevance of Western Melodrama Theories to Recent Chinese Cinema E. Ann Kaplan Melodrama; Postmodernism; and the Japanese Cinema Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto Negotiating the Transition to Capitalism: The Case of Andaz Paul Willemen The Politics of Melodrama in Indonesian Cinema Krishna Sen Melodrama as It (Dis)appears in Australian Film Susan Dermody Filming New Seoul: Melodramatic Constructions of the Subject in Spinning Wheel and First Son Rob Wilson Psyches; Ideologies; and Melodrama: The United States and Japan Maureen Turim